2020
DOI: 10.33774/apsa-2020-b6bnf
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Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative?

Abstract: Political rhetoric has important effects on the quality of democracy, but we know very little about what causes variation in the tone of the political debate. We investigate how radical-right success affects the way the remaining politicians discuss political issues. Using an original dictionary, we measure different positive and negative emotions in a newly collected dataset of speeches in German state parliaments. Taking advantage of variation in the timing of elections when radical-right politicians enter t… Show more

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